Influencer responds to backlash over her ‘disgusting’ joke while visiting a concentration camp

Remember a few years ago when there was a trend of influencers being undeniably awful people at former concentration camps? Well, it might now be back because an influencer called Meile Weatherill has pretty much done the exact same thing.

Though the video has since been deleted, copies of it have popped up across the internet. In one stitch from @daadisnacks, whose page largely centres around dragging influencers, Meile could be seen visiting the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site on her honeymoon. Dachau was the first large-scale concentration camp of its time, and it quickly became the blueprint for other camps.

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In one particular moment, she joked that “the dust is a paid actor”, seemingly referring to the 40,000 people who were killed there. In total, it was believed to have housed over 200k prisoners between 1933 and 1945.

“Okay, that was not funny,” she said. “Okay, maybe a little funny. I’m not trying to be funny.”

While the video was removed and Meile issued a so-called apology, claiming the tour guide made a similar joke, people have said it’s not good enough. At the end of the day, it wasn’t just about making the joke, but filming, editing, and then deciding to post it on TikTok.

One person scathed on TikTok: “I went to a camp once and can’t imagine filming. It isn’t something I want to look back on when going through vacation pictures. It’s the kind of place where you don’t need pictures to remember being there because it sticks with you.”

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“The guide did not make that joke or any other joke, especially not publicly and especially not as a paid employee at a former concentration camp. It is quite literally illegal to do so, and they take it incredibly seriously in Germany. Her allegation is absolutely disgusting,” another said.

Someone else wrote: “I’ve been to Dachau and it’s literally impossible to make jokes there I’ve never felt heaviness like it just being there.”

The influencer has issued an apology for the concentration camp video

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This is my attempt to make it right, not just with an apology, but by honoring the victims and their families through education about what actually happened and why we must never forget.

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In a five-minute TikTok video on Monday, Meile Weatherill spoke at length about the backlash with the caption: “This is my attempt to make it right, not just with an apology, but by honouring the victims and their families through education about what actually happened and why we must never forget.”

She said she was urged to make a video by a woman whose family died in similar camps during WW2, so this time she spoke about her actual experiences of walking through Dachau Concentration Camp, and specifically, the horrific stories she learned while she was there.

Towards the end of the video, she apologised: “With all that said and done, I can’t ever reverse what I said, and I wish I hadn’t said that. Truly. There’s nothing that would explain my actions; there’s truly nothing to excuse. I said that, and I have to take accountability for it.

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“This is the best way that I feel I can do it, by educating others on how horrible and how brutal this time in history was. It’s nothing to take lightly, and it’s nothing to joke about.”

Explaining why she made the joke in the first place, she noted how she was “trying to make light” of the situation after “going through all the emotions” when walking through Dachau. Instead, she urged people to take a warm bath, light a candle, or read a book if they’re feeling weighed down by emotions.

“Making a joke is never okay,” she added.

The influencer had turned the comments off on her concentration camp apology video, but I can’t imagine they would have been pleasant.

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